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Archive for March, 2008
Monday Notes: Finally, A Government; Hayden’s Focus on AQ in Pakistan; Taliban Talk; End of NAB
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
NEW CABINET SWORN IN Pervez Musharraf swore in the 24-member federal cabinet today. No real surprises. Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Ahmed Mukhtar of the People's Party (PPP) are, respectively, ... Read more..Musharraf All Alone in Pindi
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Attorney General Malik Qayyum, a senior legal adviser to Pervez Musharraf, has resigned. His departure follows that of many Musharraf allies in recent weeks. The leaves of ... Read more..Wednesday Notes
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The PPP and PML-N have yet to finalize all the cabinet posts, though should be done by the weekend. Sherry Rehman will be information minister, which was expected. ... Read more..John McCain Sort of Calls for a Democratic Coalition Against ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in John McCain | No Comments »
Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave an important foreign policy address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council today. McCain described himself as a "realistic idealist." He, as he has done for ... Read more..Rich and John’s Unexcellent Adventure
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in John Negroponte, Richard Boucher | 6 Comments »
SORRY, I KNOW WE CAME A BIT EARLY The big story in Pakistan today was not the swearing in of the new prime minister, but the arrival of Deputy Secretary of ... Read more..Monday Notes: New PM; Portfolio Management; The Two Wise Men; Judicial Freedom; Military Changes
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
New Prime Minister: Yousaf Raza Gillani Pakistan was elected as Pakistan's next prime minister by a wide margin in the National Assembly. He will be sworn in tomorrow. Gillani announced ... Read more..Breaking News: Judicial activists enter Justice Iftikhar’s home
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Iftikhar Chaudhry | No Comments »
Judicial activists have broken the cordon around the home of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who has been under house arrest for over five months. Chaudhry was expected to be ... Read more..Pakistan’s Next Prime Minister: Yousuf Raza Gillani
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, Yousaf Raza Gillani | 5 Comments »
People's Party Spokesman Farhatullah Babar just announced Yousuf Raza Gillani as the incoming governing coalition's nominee for the prime minister. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was to read out the nomination, but PPP ... Read more..Bin Laden: Jihad in Iraq Will Free Palestine
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Al Jazeera (Arabic) is broadcasting a new audio tape from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. This is his second audio message in as many days. Bin Laden has ... Read more..The Rape of a Nation
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Today, on the election of Pakistan's first female National Assembly speaker, came reports that a woman was raped in the Karachi mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founder. The ... Read more..